GBC/ACM Meetings Archive

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Spring, 2008

Grand Challenges in Engineering for the 21st Century
Presented by: Dean Kamen and Ray Kurzweil
Date:Thursday, 05/15/2008

spring, 2008

Gold and Fool's Gold: Successes, Failures, and Futures in Computer Systems Research
Presented by: Butler Lampson, Microsoft Research and CSAIL
Date:Thursday, 04/17/2008

Fall, 2008

Report from EclipseCon
Presented by: Vineet Sinha
Date:Thursday, 04/03/2008

Spring, 2008

Collaborative Software Development with Jazz
Presented by: Peter Klenk, IBM Rational
Date:Thursday, 03/20/2008

BIRT: An Eclipse based open source reporting solution
Presented by: Michael Fox, IBM Rational
Date:Thursday, 02/21/2008

New England Database Day 2008
Presented by: Call for Participation
Date:Monday, 02/04/2008

Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Presented by: Jared M. Spool, User Interface Engineering
Date:Thursday, 01/17/2008

free pizza
Presented by: Intuit QuickBase and Jared Spool
Date:Thursday, 01/17/2008

Fall, 2007

The Open Cell Project: Analysis, Design and Construction of Simple Living Systems
Presented by: Tom Knight, MIT CSAIL
Date:Tuesday, 12/11/2007

Visualizing Wikipedia: A tale of life, love, and bureaucracy
Presented by: Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, IBM Visual Communication Lab
Date:Thursday, 11/15/2007

Global Trends in the Personal, Service and Mobile Robotics Market
Presented by: Dan Kara, President, Robotics Trends
Date:Tuesday, 11/13/2007

A Mobile Phone Ecosystem
Presented by: Jamey Hicks, Nokia Research Center Cambridge
Date:Thursday, 10/18/2007

What's Cool about Fortress
Presented by: Guy L. Steele Jr. , Sun Microsystems
Date:Thursday, 09/20/2007

Spring, 2007

The Next Computer Revolution: The Coming of Semi-Smart Machines
Presented by: John Bottoms
Date:Thursday, 06/21/2007

GBC Annual Business Meeting
Presented by: anyone interested
Date:Thursday, 06/21/2007

Evolution of MATLAB
Presented by: Cleve Moler
Date:Thursday, 05/17/2007

One Size Fits All in DataBase Management: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone
Presented by: Michael Stonebraker, EECS Dept. MIT
Date:Thursday, 05/10/2007

One laptop per child: a software design
Presented by: Jim Gettys
Date:Thursday, 04/26/2007

SIGGRAPH video screening
Presented by: Boston SIGGRAPH
Date:Wednesday, 04/25/2007

Debugging Backwards in Time
Presented by: Bil Lewis, Tufts University & Lambda Computer Science
Date:Thursday, 04/19/2007

The Dawning of the Age of Experience
Presented by: Jared M. Spool, User Interface Engineering
Date:Thursday, 02/15/2007

What compiler writers/chip architects might want to know about Graphics Processors
Presented by: Norm Rubin, Compiler Architect AMD/ATI
Date:Thursday, 01/18/2007

Fall, 2006

Wireless Sensors and Control Networks: A Watershed Event
Presented by: Christopher Leidigh, Zigbee IP & Gateways; President, Alektrona Co.
Date:Thursday, 12/14/2006

Gold and Fool's Gold: Successes, Failures: MEETING CANCELLED
Presented by: Butler Lampson, Microsoft Research and MIT CSAIL
Date:Thursday, 11/30/2006

Computer and Network Security in the 21st Century
Presented by: Jeffrey I. Schiller, MIT
Date:Thursday, 11/16/2006

Challenges and Opportunities in Computational Biology: Interpreting the human genome
Presented by: Manolis Kellis, MIT CSAIL and the Broad Institute
Date:Thursday, 10/19/2006

Algorithms for the 21st Century
Presented by: Steve Johnson, MathWorks
Date:Thursday, 09/28/2006

Where Have All The IT Jobs Gone? There, There, and Right Here
Presented by: Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
Date:Thursday, 09/21/2006

Impact and Opportunities from rapidly evolving Global Enterprise Network
Presented by: Stephen Singh, Vice President Telecom Architecture & Chief Architect, Fidelity Investments – Syste
Date:Thursday, 09/14/2006

Spring, 2006

Online Health Communities
Presented by: Lisa Neal
Date:Thursday, 06/15/2006

The Evolving Security Threat Landscape
Presented by: Eric Hanselman - Network Protection Architect, Internet Security Systems
Date:Thursday, 06/08/2006

Self-organizing Robots
Presented by: Daniela Rus, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Date:Tuesday, 05/09/2006

Innovation Games™: Creating Innovation Products Through Collaborative Play (Not a Talk, but an Experience)
Presented by: Luke Hohmann, Enthiosys
Date:Wednesday, 04/26/2006

Reinventing the Internet: is it time?
Presented by: David Clark, MIT Senior Research Scientist and principal designer of TCP/IP
Date:Thursday, 04/20/2006

Integrating Java and C++
Presented by: Alexander R. Krapf
Date:Thursday, 03/16/2006

Web 2.0 For the Rest of Us
Presented by: Joshua Porter, Director of Web Development, User Interface Engineering
Date:Thursday, 02/16/2006

The Scent of a Web Page: Five Types of Navigation Pages
Presented by: Jared Spool, User Interface guru and founder, UIE
Date:Thursday, 01/19/2006

Fall, 2005

To Spelunk or Not to Spelunk: Does Immersive Virtual Reality Help
Presented by: David Laidlaw, director, Visualization Research Lab, Brown University
Date:Thursday, 12/01/2005

Introduction to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Presented by: Edward Leonard, IBM
Date:Thursday, 11/17/2005

What2what (was end2end): the future of the Internet
Presented by: Scott Bradner, Harvard University
Date:Thursday, 10/20/2005

Stream Processing Engines -- What Makes Them Tick
Presented by: Mike Stonebraker, MIT CSAIL & StreamBase Systems, Inc.
Date:Thursday, 09/22/2005

Spring, 2005

Introduction to Grid Computing
Presented by: Barry Nusbaum of IBM
Date:Thursday, 06/16/2005

Haystack: Putting Users Back in Control of their Information Organization
Presented by: David Karger, MIT CSAIL
Date:Thursday, 05/19/2005

Helping People Find Information Better
Presented by: Jaime Teevan, MIT CSAIL
Date:Thursday, 04/28/2005

A meta-language for system architecting: A case study based on NASA's Apollo Program
Presented by: Benjamin Koo and Jay Conne
Date:Thursday, 03/17/2005

New Standards for Elections: A forum on technical and nontechnical requirements for voting systems
Presented by: Host: Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Radcliffe Institute Fellow and member of the P1583 committee
Date:Saturday, 02/12/2005

Internet Vulnerabilities and Server Security
Presented by: Patrick Hynds and Duane Laflotte, CriticalSites
Date:Thursday, 01/27/2005

Fall, 2004

C# Generics vs. C++ Templates
Presented by: Richard Hale Shaw
Date:Thursday, 12/16/2004

What's New With IPV6: Update and Howto
Presented by: Jamey Hicks, HP Labs - Cambridge Research Lab
Date:Thursday, 11/18/2004

Engineering Simple Living Systems: Parts, Modularity, and Simplicity for the Biological World
Presented by: Tom Knight, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Date:Thursday, 10/21/2004

.LRN: An Open Source Approach to Educational Technology Innovation
Presented by: Al Essa, MIT Sloan School
Date:Thursday, 09/23/2004

Spring, 2004

Parrot: Structure and building of a Virtual Machine
Presented by: Dan Sugalski
Date:Thursday, 06/17/2004

annual business meeting
Presented by: chapter officers
Date:Thursday, 06/17/2004

The Physics of RFID
Presented by: Matt Reynolds, Founding Partner, ThingMagic LLC
Date:Thursday, 05/20/2004

Storing Everything Personal
Presented by: Gordon Bell
Date:Thursday, 05/06/2004

Software Patents: A Proposal for Reform in Theory, Policy, and Practice
Presented by: Robert Plotkin
Date:Tuesday, 04/20/2004

Electronic Contracting: Assent or Illusion?
Presented by: Stephen Y. Chow, Partner, Perkins, Smith & Cohen LLP, http://www.pscboston.com
Date:Thursday, 03/18/2004

Axeda DRM - Remote Diagnostics & 24x7 Connectivity between Deployed Systems & Support Centers
Presented by: Jim Hansen, Axeda
Date:Thursday, 02/26/2004

Software Safety: Foundations and Experience: joint meeting with IEEE SIT and IEEE CS
Presented by: Steven Sell, Payload Systems and Edward Lowry
Date:Thursday, 01/22/2004

Designing the Online Learner Experience
Presented by: Lisa Neal, Editor-in-Chief, eLearn Magazine, www.eLearnMag.org
Date:Thursday, 01/08/2004

Fall, 2003

The Future of Spam Filtering
Presented by: Paul Graham, independent software developer and spam filtering guru
Date:Thursday, 12/11/2003

Shared Risk at the National Scale
Presented by: Dan Geer
Date:Thursday, 11/20/2003

Geographic Text Search: Accelerating Analysis and Reporting
Presented by: John Frank, MetaCarta
Date:Thursday, 10/16/2003

Visionary: A Next Generation Visualization System for Data Bases
Presented by: Michael Stonebraker, M.I.T. and Rocket Software
Date:Thursday, 09/18/2003

Spring, 2003

Water and XML: an Executable Modeling Language for Web Service
Presented by: Mike Plusch, Clear Methods
Date:Thursday, 06/19/2003

What is an Agile Process?
Presented by: Ken Schwaber, AgileAlliance
Date:Thursday, 05/22/2003

A New Kind of Science
Presented by: Stephen Wolfram
Date:Thursday, 04/24/2003

Xtreme Enterprise Architecture (XEA)
Presented by: Jeff Tash, ITscout
Date:Thursday, 03/20/2003

Is there any hope for Web Security?
Presented by: Charlie Kaufman, IBM
Date:Thursday, 02/27/2003

Proposed Security enhancements to Wireless LAN protocol IEEE 802.11
Presented by: Mr. Donald Eastlake III, Motorola
Date:Thursday, 01/23/2003

Fall, 2002

Spam: Technology and Policy for Control of Unsolicited Electronic Communications
Presented by: Jeff Schiller and Richard M. Smith
Date:Thursday, 12/19/2002

The MIT SCALE project
Presented by: Krste Asanovic
Date:Thursday, 11/21/2002

The future of technology: Grid Computing
Presented by: IBM Solution Partnership Center in Waltham
Date:Monday, 11/04/2002

Guided Navigation: a Multidimensional Approach to Information Architecture
Presented by: Fritz Knabe and Daniel Tunkelang, Endeca
Date:Thursday, 10/17/2002

Integrating Java with NET at the Macro and Micro Levels
Presented by: Jerry Thomas
Date:Thursday, 09/26/2002

Bluespec(TM): a language to raise the level of ASIC design
Presented by: Rishiyur S. Nikhil
Date:Thursday, 09/19/2002

Spring, 2002

Service based Intelligence: Evolution from Switching to Transmission and Access
Presented by: Anant Kumar Jain
Date:Thursday, 06/20/2002

Escaping From “Square Wheel” Data Objects
Presented by: Edward S. Lowry
Date:Thursday, 05/23/2002

Cognitive and Communicative Capacities of Grey Parrots --- and The Implications of Such Studies
Presented by: Irene Pepperberg
Date:Thursday, 04/18/2002

A Retrospective on Where We Have Been and Where We are Going
Presented by: Bob Frankston
Date:Thursday, 03/21/2002

Simplified XML Programming using Water
Presented by: Christopher Fry and Mike Plusch
Date:Thursday, 02/21/2002

Fall, 2001

Project Mercury: Exploring the Future of Handheld Computing
Presented by: Jamey Hicks
Compaq
Date:Thursday, 10/18/2001

Spring, 2004

Designing the Online Learner Experience
Presented by: Lisa Neal (slides available online)
Date:Tuesday, 00/00/0000

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